Learning from the Streets

Just for fun, and  I may do a review of the year in a later piece, but I thought I would do a short quiz, and all you need to do is work out which year the quote was from. Sometimes, for me, we can be ignorant of who has said similar things before, about the same issues, that have emerged this year.

Give your self 3 points for a correct answer, and a bonus 2 if you guess the publication the quotation is from.  (ill put them in the comments below)

1. ‘It is too often and too easily assumed that the prime responsibility for work with young people in the church of England is with the ‘church’s children’. We do not want to denigrate this work. Yet we must underline that the alienation that we have found amongst young people is not least alienation from the church’ what was the year this was said, and where? 

2. ‘In all negotiations with the Clergy or with a local church, the youth worker is working within the basic emotional dynamic which is created by the parental duties, needs and concerns of the local church members. This dynamic is extremely powerful and its influence cannot be underestimated’  when was this said.. and by whom? 

3. ‘When church leaders were always white, respect for the church is diminished’  said when and by whom?

4. ‘It would appear that the days of ‘entertaining youth’, keeping them ‘off the streets’ with youth programmes are no longer interesting to Millenials. Teens want to engage with God, they aren’t looking for Saturday/Sunday night amusement anymore’ – when and where was this said? 

5. ‘Young People are not openly rejecting either Christian Instiutions or organised youth work. They are simply not even accepting them as having any possible claim on them or anything to offer to them that they need’  the author and date of this one, any ideas? 

6. ‘Why go across the sea to receive a blessing, when you can go across the street and be a blessing’.  This nugget was said by whom.., and when? 

7. ‘This mirrors todays pattern, youth work often targets the disadvantaged, whilst youth ministry concentrates on the advantaged’   As said by whom.. and when,? 

8. ‘In working with young people, do not try to call them back to where they were, and do not try to call them to where you are, as beautiful as a place that may seem to you. You must have the courage to go with them to a place that neither you nor they have ever been before’  maybe a well known one this.. but when and by whom was it said? 

9. ‘More than ever, todays youth ministers must function first as missionaries, then as social workers , then finally as Pastors’. Date and Author for this one please…

10. ‘Youth ministry is full of sprinters, young attractive, strong men and women who can achieve amazing speed over a short period of time. But where are they after two, or three or five years? We need more marathon runners.’  Last one  – what do you think, said by whom, and when? 

So, have you got 10 years and 10 possible authors? Some might be more difficult than others, ive put the answers in the first comment below. Do reply with your scores too!

total Scores 50….

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Happy new year from me at this blog!  Thank you for all your support, reading, sharing of these hopefully helpful, interesting and provoking articles in 2020. I really appreciate all the comments, likes, shares and follows, and any financial gifts to me too.

I wish you a happy new year!